Two men dressed as construction workers, one reportedly wearing a hard hat and carrying a black and blue canvas bag, robbed an armored car in Columbia Heights this morning, making off in blue-green minivan with yet untold sums of cash. Reporting from the scene, WJLA-TV's Stephen Tschida notes, "this incident is very similar to one which [...]
Romeo Morgan is fed up with waiting on community leaders to endorse his liquor license application, some 234 days now and counting, he says.
“We have people who are elected as ANC commissioners to represent us in our neighborhood, but then my ANC commissioner refused to even put me on the schedule to be heard, because [...]
14th and Irving Street NW, April 7
According to court records, Sergio Lopez was arrested for assault with intent to kill on April 1 at approximately 8 p.m at 14th and Monroe Streets NW. Word is, the victim of the assault was a well-known Columbia Heights street vendor who sets up a table [...]
Hiatt Place NW, March 25
14th Street NW, March 24
Finally, Mayor Adrian Fenty is talking about jobs. I'm sure LL will have much more on this. But I wanted to get the discussion started. Last night, Fenty announced a joint effort with the Washington Interfaith Network to train the unemployed in home weatherizing and then put them to work on area homes. Doesn't this [...]
Park Road NW, March 1
At approximately 11:42 last night, MPD officers cuffed an employee behind the counter at the 7-Eleven in the 3100 block of 14th street NW. One cop lifted the man by his armpits, another by his legs. The employee—swearing, cursing, kicking—was carried out of the store and into the back of a cruiser idling on 14th [...]
Today's "storm" is expected to be nothing more than a dusting for us snow vets. And yet that extra inch or two of snow will only make digging out my car that much more difficult. Yes, I have one of the few cars that are still completely buried in snow. I'm waiting for shovels to [...]
Early this morning, according to one woman's report, police arrested a person for throwing snowballs in Columbia Heights. The incident reportedly happened not far the Wonderland Ballroom, at 11th and Kenyon Streets, shortly after the bar closed at 2 a.m. According to the witness, one young woman was taken into custody.
This report, of course, comes [...]
A domestic dispute at the Columbia Heights Village apartments last night ended in homicide.
D.C. Metropolitan Police Department officers arrived at 2806 14th St. NW at 7:37 p.m. Wednesday to find a man holding Todd Angelo Jackson, 28, in a headlock, according to the police report. After the officers ordered the man to release Jackson, they [...]
